Subject: SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT IS HAPPENING
From: rotaryeng
Date: 6/3/2012, 8:45 AM
To: AAAA Put this in the To box


 Guess Who's Buying Gun Companies?
 Marlin Firearms is already closing its doors!  They're doing it to us America!
 Even if you do not own a gun you need  to know this.   This needs to be spread to all
 gun owners and sportsman.   We cannot rely on the media to inform us of these types
 of matters.

 SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT IS HAPPENING ….

 Who is buying companies, manufacturing guns ?????
 For the last several years a company called The Freedom Group has been buying up gun
 and ammunition manufacturers. Some of the companies are Bushmaster, Marlin,
 Remington, DPMS, Dakota Arms and H&R.   Some people worry that this Freedom Group is
 going to control most of the firearms companies in the United States.  If you control
 the manufacturers you can decide to stop selling to civilians .  What a  perfect way
 to control guns.

 Now if you do some digging you will see that The Freedom Group is owned by a company
 called Cerberus Capital Management.

 Guess who controls Cerberus???   GEORGE SOROS !!!!!!!!!  One of the most evil men on
 this planet , who wants to restrict or ban all civilian guns.  Please pass this on to
 all your freedom loving friends.   This needs to come out.  Why have we not heard
 about this in the "mainstream" media?  I would think this would be BIG news .  (Soros
 also owns Progressive Insurance)

 If you don't know who George Soros is, you need to do some research.  He backed Obama
 with millions of dollars and Obama is a puppet on a string controlled by Soros.

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus_Capital_Management#Founding.2FHistory

 Firearms — Acquired Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., from Windham, Maine native Dick Dyke
 for an undisclosed sum in April 2006, and purchased Remington Arms in April 2007.
 Under Cerberus direction, Bushmaster Firearms acquired Cobb Manufacturing, a
 well-respected manufacturer of large-caliber tactical rifles in August 2007. Cerberus
 also acquired DPMS Panther Arms December 14, 2007.[56][57] Remington Arms acquired
 Marlin Firearms in January 2008.[58][59] In October 2009, Remington Military products
 acquired silencer manufacturer Advanced Armament Corporation.[60] These companies
 were combined into the Freedom Group.

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 Automotive — Peguform (acquired by Cerberus in 2004 and sold it to Polytec four years
 later), GDX Automotive (owned by Cerberus until 2011), and Chrysler.

 In 2007, Cerberus and about 100 other investors purchased an 80% stake in Chrysler
 for $7.4 billion[34] seeking to bolster the auto maker’s performance by operating as
 an independent company. In 2008, the plan collapsed due to an unprecedented slowdown
 in the U.S. auto industry and a lack of capital.[35]

 In response to questioning at a hearing before the House committee on December 5,
 2008 by Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, Chrysler President and CEO Robert Nardelli said that
 Cerberus' fiduciary obligations to its other investors and investments prohibited it
 from injecting capital.[35] "In order to achieve that goal Cerberus has advised the
 U.S. Treasury that it would contribute its equity in Chrysler automotive to labor and
 creditors as currency to facilitate the accommodations necessary to affect the
 restructuring."[36]

 On April 30, 2009, Chrysler declared bankruptcy protection and announced that GMAC
 would become the financing source for new wholesale and retail Chrysler cars.[37]

 On March 30, 2009, it was announced that Cerberus Capital Management would
 voluntarily give up its equity stake in the Chrysler auto company as a condition of
 the U.S. Treasury Department’s bailout deal, but would retain its stake in Chrysler’s
 financing arm, Chrysler Financial. Cerberus agreed to provide $2 billion to backstop
 a $4 billion December 2008 U.S. Treasury Department loan given to Chrysler. In
 exchange for obtaining that loan, it promised many concessions including surrendering
 equity, foregoing profits, and giving up board seats. U.S. Treasury and the Obama
 administration recognized the “sacrifices by key stakeholders” in an effort to give
 Chrysler the “opportunity to thrive as a long-term viable 21st century company.”[38]

 Chrysler Financial, once the exclusive lending arm of the automaker, remained owned
 by Cerberus until April 2011.[39]

 Chrysler Financial initially refused to take $750 million in Troubled Asset Relief
 Program (TARP) government bailout aid because executives didn't want to abide by
 executive-pay limits, and because the firm doesn't necessarily need the money.[40] In
 January 2009, Chrysler Financial was the recipient of $1.5 billion from the Troubled
 Asset Relief Program. The company said that it used the money to fund 85,000 loans to
 purchase Chrysler automobiles. Chrysler Financial repaid all of the TARP loan in July
 2009 by raising funds from an asset-backed securitization through the Term
 Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility program.[41]

 In December of 2010, Cerberus agreed to sell certain assets of Chrysler Financial to
 TD Bank Group for $6.3 billion in cash, retaining approximately $1 billion in
 Chrysler Financial assets.[42] This transaction, which closed in April 2011, allowed
 Cerberus to recover virtually all of its investment in Chrysler.,[43][44]



I scanned this pretty fast, but where's the connection with Soros?  He's not part of
Cerberus, right?


Matt-

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_owns_Cerberus_Capital_Management